Example sentences of "[adv] to [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better to knowing now than to know when you arrive there . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm meeting her tomorrow off the boat train , ’ Harry replied , ‘ and we 're going down to Calking together . |
| 3 | That 's what all boils down to does n't it at the end of the day and you have n't succeeded as far as I can see in convincing people , those three thousand signatories , that erm it 's not going to affect their lives and the quality of their lives and their their environment adversely . |
| 4 | Madeleine kept repeating that she 'd get down to hacking back the brambles one of these days but on the other hand she did n't have the time . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
| 6 | She asked a waiter for another pot , and settled down to catching up with the story of Swan 's life . |
| 7 | GOLDEN couple Bill and Freda Jefferson celebrate 50 years of marriage today and put their happiness down to working together . |
| 8 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 9 | I put it down to giving up work . ’ |
| 10 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 11 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 12 | This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks . |
| 13 | Mr McKee referred to the Royal 's ‘ recent difficulties with one particular health and social services board ’ and said the media 's assistance in highlighting their problems contributed greatly to bringing about committed support from their own staff , the public and the GPs of the area . |
| 14 | Considerable opposition in to setting up Trusts . |
| 15 | But he come in to sussed out ? |
| 16 | The United States and Australian governments , however , refused to offer debt relief and would agree only to rescheduling over 25 years . |
| 17 | But this codification , or structuration of meaning , applies only to meaning narrowly , though centrally , defined as conceptual or logical meaning — what we earlier called SENSE . |
| 18 | Radically different manual practices , directed to radically different human senses ( over a range , for example , from sight alone to hearing alone ) , are presumptively encompassed by this single general category . |
| 19 | This is Snoopy , a much modified Hercules , dedicated almost entirely to finding out more about our weather . |
| 20 | Of course one is teaching new material as well , but it 's the repetition of certain subjects which can be boring , so we 're trying to combine this with material which sees it in application , and in fact for engineers their whole orientation is towards applying ideas and not just to learning how and why nature works — that 's the question that science asks , but engineering aims to apply and harness natural phenomena . |
| 21 | How much of the discussion was given over to reporting back on the perceptions of others including children ? |
| 22 | For example , Peter Winch comes at least close to maintaining not only that there can be no action outside some governing public rules but also that a full account of the rules obeyed also yields a full account of the action done . |
| 23 | THE Christians came close to splitting up after they were hit by a massive £2 million lawsuit . |
| 24 | The ninth seed , Michael Stich , also came close to bowing out but escaped with a 4-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 win over Frenchman Rodolphe Gilbert . |
| 25 | I feel dizzy now , close to passing out , I feel . |
| 26 | If you could imagine yourself being without the radio , T. V. , or telephone then you just might come close to imagining how difficult it must have been to spread or hand on the message of Christianity . |
| 27 | Last week Mr Cojuangco came close to getting back on the board of San Miguel , the country 's largest firm , which he once controlled . |
| 28 | The idea was to record and tour with the band , but Knopfler saw an essentially fun project with his mates develop into something which came close to getting out of hand . |
| 29 | By now she 'd definitely come to pin the blame on the stuff they 'd had to drink ; every time she even thought of it she came close to throwing up . |
| 30 | He teetered backwards , got close to toppling over , fell back into the snow , looked up and hissed Jesus through clenched teeth . |